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Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange

England
List entry 1020297
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1020297
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.14 hectares
Grid reference
SK 29743 68140
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

The Site of Bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange is a post-medieval industrial monument located in Derbyshire. A bole is a traditional open-air furnace used for the smelting of lead ore, and this example represents the widespread extractive industries that characterised the Derbyshire lead mining landscape from the medieval period through the early modern era. The site's survival as an archaeological feature provides evidence of the methods and scale of metalworking activity in this region during a period of significant economic importance to the Peak District.

Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020297. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange?

The Site of Bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange is a post-medieval industrial monument located in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020297.

Who is responsible for protecting Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange?

Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020297.

What other scheduled monuments are near Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lumsdale Mills and associated water management features (7.4 km), Old Millclose engine house and associated features, 570m south west of Cowley Hall (7.4 km), Moated site and fishponds 300m north east of Snitterton Hall (7.8 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Lumsdale Mills and associated water management features
7.4 km
Old Millclose engine house and associated features, 570m south west of Cowley Hall
7.4 km
Moated site and fishponds 300m north east of Snitterton Hall
7.8 km
Matlock Bridge
8 km
Mount Pleasant lead mines, immediately south of Wensley
8.1 km
Northern Dale lead mines
8.1 km
Lead workings in High Tor Recreation Ground
9.2 km
Two lead mines known as Winster Pitts and Drummer's Venture
9.3 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange

Site of bole 1400m west of Harewood Grange stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.

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